I saw this earlier on another site. Of course, most sunscreens etc. contain some alcohol or other flammable vapors. But USUALLY those vapors disperse in plenty of time that the wearer doesn't burst into flame by the time they walk past a candle or campfire or what have you.

I guess the next headline will be TEEN SUFFERS ALCOHOL POISONING AFTER DRINKING SUNSCREEN.

Gyrfalcon:I saw this earlier on another site. Of course, most sunscreens etc. contain some alcohol or other flammable vapors. But USUALLY those vapors disperse in plenty of time that the wearer doesn't burst into flame by the time they walk past a candle or campfire or what have you.

I guess the next headline will be TEEN SUFFERS ALCOHOL POISONING AFTER DRINKING SUNSCREEN.

How about TEEN SUFFERS ALCOHOL POISONING AFTER BUTT-CHUGGING SUNSCREEN.

JasonOfOrillia:Gyrfalcon: I saw this earlier on another site. Of course, most sunscreens etc. contain some alcohol or other flammable vapors. But USUALLY those vapors disperse in plenty of time that the wearer doesn't burst into flame by the time they walk past a candle or campfire or what have you.

I guess the next headline will be TEEN SUFFERS ALCOHOL POISONING AFTER DRINKING SUNSCREEN.

How about TEEN SUFFERS ALCOHOL POISONING AFTER BUTT-CHUGGING SUNSCREEN.

MontanaDave:Spray-on sunscreen does, in fact, have alcohol in it. If you shave your head, like I do, and apply that shiat to your scalp you will think you have burst into flames.

/the more you know//the more you wish you had learned it earlier

True, but it doesn't change the fact that this headline is rather ... sensationalitically misleading.

Reads like the stuff is made out of a mix of Nitroglycerine, pure sodium metal, hydrozene tetraflouride, Astrolite®, Napalm, white Phosphorus, pure Magnesium, U238, old-style WD-40, chimeny soot, last year's prairie grass, ground essence of Ford Pinto, eye of newt, JP-4, Aquanet Super Unscented, Michael Jackson's hair, Dragons' Breath, Potassium Chlorate, Balrog farts, grain elevator dust, Ifrit tears, and Red Dye #4: c'mon now, *any* oil-based product in a fine aerosol is at least inflammable near a source of ignition!! Add an alcohol solvent and you might as well be spraying yourself with "Insta-immolate". Only a complete moron would try that in real life whilst applying it to themselves. Sometimes getting "Darwined" is a good thing, for everyone and the survival of the whole human species.

fusillade762:JasonOfOrillia: Gyrfalcon: I saw this earlier on another site. Of course, most sunscreens etc. contain some alcohol or other flammable vapors. But USUALLY those vapors disperse in plenty of time that the wearer doesn't burst into flame by the time they walk past a candle or campfire or what have you.

I guess the next headline will be TEEN SUFFERS ALCOHOL POISONING AFTER DRINKING SUNSCREEN.

How about TEEN SUFFERS ALCOHOL POISONING AFTER BUTT-CHUGGING SUNSCREEN.

Hey, how do YOU keep your colon from getting sunburned?

For myself, I just don't stand on my head doing the splits at the beach.